The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12
Let Them Heed the Warning.

| they will heed the warning they received at
Chicago yesterday AS long as they keep
within the bounds of the law they are
safe, but when they step beyond 1T
and not only advocate but commit
murder, they will have no more lenency
shown them than if they were to stealthily
! approach personal enemy and drive a
| knife or fire bullet into his heart.
The lives of the officers of the law are as
sacred as those of private citizens and any
attack upon them should be as swiftly and
severely punished as an attack upon those
who wear no badges of author
ity The 10000 citizens of Chicago
who signed petition to the Governor,
asking q pardon for the murderers of
the seven policemen at the Haymarket meet
ing eighteen months ago, forgot apparently,
that if it were not for the police their city
would be in the hands of the mob. and
their business and their homes destroyed.
Anarchists cannot be reached by acts Of
mercy or appeals to reason. If the four
men who died Yesterday on the Scaffold,
and the two who were sent TO the penlUen-
tary for life, had been pardoned they
would have at once begun again to advo-
cate anarchy. They would have renewed
their appeals to workingmen to resist the
law. They would have conspired again to
make war upon the police with death deal
ing bombs.
Mercy shown Anarchists would be inter
preted by them TO mean that the authorities
were afraid of them, and they would feel
secure in indulging in greater ex-
ccsses and committing other and
more atrocious deeds of violence. To
them leniency means fear and liberty means
license. There is only one way to deal with
them, and that is to show them no quarter
When they violate the law they must be
made to suffer the penalty for such viola
ton, and be made to understand that there
is power enough in this country, though it
is lodged with the people, to infiict whatever
penalties the law provides.
The Anarchists who seek this country be-
cause their own has become rather uncom-
Portable for them. have the idea that they
can do as they please as soon as they land
upon our shores This idea is strengthened
by hearing in public places the most violent
expressions against the law and those who
administer it, and seeing in the
public prints the highest officials
criticised in harsh and bitter terms. They
are given every opportunity to learn, how
ever, that while this is country of free
speech there is the most profound respect
for the law. The people speak their minds,
but they want the law respected and obeyed
because it is their safety.
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and there is no way to prevent them from
violating it, except by force. Most and his
companions in New York would do in that
city what the Anarchists did in Chicago. if
they were not afraid they would suffer the
fate that overlook Spies, Parsons and the
others of the Haymarlet group.
The Anarchists pretend that the hanging
of some of their leaders at Chicago will not
check anarchy. If that will not, what will ,
They say the Chicago hanging viii swell
the ranks of the Anarchists and incite them
to more violent deeds. Well, they will
have to be met with greater
force, and if they insist upon
committing other murders, other Anarch-
list necks will have to be stretched. II
mercy would have weakened anarchy there
would have been some reason in granting
it, even though justice would have been
ignored, but it would not. The
course that was pursued was
the right one, and the future viii show that
it was. The time had come when it was
necessary to take a stand against the VIC
lence and crimes Ct Anarchy. The admin
istrators of the law were ready to take that
stand and public sentiment supported
them.
The condemned Anarchists declared, and
their counsel and friends declared in their
behalf, that they had nothing to do with
throwing the bomb at the Haymarket meet
ing, and that they never intended to use
force in carrying out their principles.
These things were said when they
saw themselves in danger of being
condemned to the gallows. The truth
is, that they were engaged in a great con-
spiracy to overthrow the law and to intro
duce chaos where peace and order reigned
1t was III their programme that human
lives should be sacrificed, though they in
tended to take good care of their own lives
They have paid the penalty of their crimes
and the verdict of the country is that they
deserved their fate.